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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Mad Man's History Lessons: Timeline 11

It appears the Mad Man's History Lessons have finally found some audience here. So while we were very tempted our class there, we remembered our biggest
learning from history, which is it'll be forgotten anyway. We don't remember
why we brought this up. Perhaps its Historian's curse - remember what everyone
forgets...and forget everything else. So we'll celebrate a full 8.33% increase
in the readership of this blog by revisiting the mid 50-s and the 60s.

1956 - Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel
Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine.
But that's only after he could figure
where it was. Which he never did.

1957 - Russell Endean becomes the
first batsman to be dismissed for having handled the ball in test match
cricket. The ignominy hurt him so much, that he never again removed his pelvic
guard.

1959 – Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba. He begins writing his memoirs
“ Fidel Castor. Or how I learnt to stop shaving and love the beard.”

1960 – CIA Spy Gary Powers’ U2 Plane is shot down by soviet missiles. Many
Americans still think it was bad weather that took Powers to Soviet skies.

1961 – 5 African chiefs from United Arab Republic, Morocco,
Ghana, Guinea and Mali plan for aNATO-type
African organization to ensure common defense. After their first meeting at Casablanca, they can’t
resolve the argument as which dialogue was better, “Play it once, Sam. For old
times' sake” or Here's looking at you, kid.

1962 – The Beatles are shown the
door at several studios, because “Guitars were on their way out”. Last heard,
the guitars are still playing, though mostly they are Beatles covers.

1963 – Travel, financial and
commercial transactions by United States
citizens to Cuba
are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration. Cuban Cigars however,
still find their way to America.

1964 – President Lyndon Johnson
announces War on Poverty, while ordering a pack of fries to go with his
Hamburger from McDonalds.

1965 – Cigarette Advertising in Banned on British Television. Advertising
Agencies find new ways to improves, by getting their employees to smoke more
cigarettes than ever before.

1966 – The new Batman TV Show starring Adam West as Bruce Wayne, is almost a
spoof of Batman. Till date, Adam West continues to spoof himself.

1967 – ATM is introduced. Several people throng it, only to realize that
you’ll get nothing out of an ATM if you have no money in the bank.

1968 – British Prime Minister Harold
Wilson endorses the 'I'm Backing Britain' campaign for working an additional
half hour each day without pay. Workers demand an increase in the duration of
Tea Time by half an hour.
1969 – Apollo XI. One small step for man, one giant leap for conspiracy
theorists.